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...second place for the men yesterday was Crag Harms, of Currier House, followed closely by Kirkland's Dan O'Brien...
...from lesser men like Jean-Paul Aubé, whose figure of Dante conversing with a damned soul may have helped start the train of thought that led to The Gates of Hell, or Alexandre Falguière, whose monument to Lamartine is distantly echoed in Rodin's bronze crag of literature, the Balzac. Yet Rodin's superiority was not so evident when he was young. His father was a small fonctionnaire, stuck in the French bureaucratic anthill. His school record was poor, and he failed three times to be accepted by the main art school in Paris...
...North Africa." The legionnaires spearheaded France's colonial ambitions-conquering Algeria, subduing Morocco, then going on to incursions in Mexico and Indochina. In victory, the legion created a legend. In 1837, one battalion seized the supposedly impenetrable Algerian citadel of Constantine, perched atop a 1,000-ft. crag. Half a century later, another Foreign Legion battalion defeated 10,000 devil-worshiping Dahomey troops, including units of ferocious, bare-breasted women who shot, knifed, bayoneted and bit off the noses of the legionnaires. Even in France's humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the legionnaires electrified their...
...happened might strain credulity even in the context of a Rosemary Rogers novel. Working only at night for more than a year, she rewrote one of her childhood tales 24 times, then mailed it to Avon. Today the author lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her three oldest children are now away from home. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together...
...elaborately religious terms as the direct speech of God. Very little in 19th century European painting, except for J.M.W. Turner and John Martin, prepares us for the burst of patriarchal radiance that Ms Bierstadt's Sunset in the Yosemite Valley, 1868. The sun is hidden by a crag as though it were the unspeakable name of Yahweh. When Frederic Church painted Cotopaxi, 1862, he deliberately invoked the creation of the world-a panorama of sifting red light, boiling vapors, lakes emptying over the abyss, and a volcano in the background. Even when it was less convulsive than a Mexican...